'It is this which has encompassed the Government with
difficulties, from which we can see no other method of
extrication than the one which we have ventured to suggest. And
as there seems no reason why, because of these unresolved
differences, a public measure for the health of all--for the
recreation of all--for the economic advancement of all--should
be held in abeyance, there seems as little reason why, because
of these differences, a public measure for raising the general
intelligence of all should be held in abeyance. Let the men
therefore of all Churches and all denominations alike hail such
a measure, whether as carried into effect by a good education in
letters or in any of the sciences; and, meanwhile, in these very
seminaries let that education in religion which the Legislature
abstains from providing for, be provided for as freely and as
amply as they will by those who have undertaken the charge of
them.

'We should hope, as the result of such a scheme, for a most
wholesome rivalship on the part of many in the great aim of
rearing on the basis of their respective systems a moral and
Christian population, well taught in the principles and
doctrines of the gospel, along with being well taught in the
lessons of ordinary scholarship. Although no attempt should be
made to regulate or to enforce the lessons of religion in the
inner hall of legislation, this will not prevent, but rather
stimulate, to a greater earnestness in the contest between truth
and falsehood--between light and darkness--in the outer field of
society; nor will the result of such a contest in favour of what
is right and good be at all the more unlikely, that the families
of the land have been raised by the helping hand of the State to
a higher platform than before, whether as respects their health,
or their physical comfort, or their economic condition, or, last
of all, their place in the scale of intelligence and learning.

'Religion would, under such a system, be the immediate product,
not of legislation, but of the Christian philanthropic zeal
which obtained throughout society at large. But it is well
when what legislation does for the fulfilment of its object
tends not to the impediment, but rather, we apprehend, to the
furtherance, of those greater and higher objects which are in
the contemplation of those whose desires are chiefly set on
the immortal wellb